The Bad Fire

by Mogwai

The album cover describes the music quite well.

I've got a few fave songs on the album:

- God Gets You Back
- Fanzine Made Of Flesh
- If You Find This World Bad, You Should See The Others

Somehow, I've always linked Mogwai together with Explosions In The Sky, but that's really unfair. Mogwai songs are more predictable in structure, even though they do form differently from song to song; I mean, they're not predictable in a bad way, it's just how harmonies tend to flow in the same way.

The bare electric-guitar plucking that can start a track and then grow with reverb and a second guitar. Then, add synths. Add vocodered-out song. Drums. Distortion. Let the song grow and grow until it cascades and ends.

It's not a bad formula at all, and Mogwai are, I think, just getting better at applying their magic to their music-making.